The Chinese have peaked like the Japanese peaked in the late 80s. It’s just not apparent to the world yet.
If Trump gets re-elected...
I remember how convinced people were that Japan was going to be the dominant economy and we were toast. But it was American's inventiveness that saved us — Japan was great at production, but we were the innovative nation. Goldman's essay mentions that same aspect of US-China relations.
China, however, has an even more troublesome aversion to "loss of face" than Japan, which has been graceful in its attempts to ally with us in the aftermath of its hideous cruelties of WW2. This article so ably points out the gaps in spiritual development of the inscrutable Chinese thought process. What is missing is any prognostication about the effects of underground Christianity in China that might mitigate China's typical "lovelessness" in future.